Power vs. Control — What's the Difference?

The ability or capacity to do something or act in a particular way

The power to influence or direct people's behaviour or the course of events

The capacity or ability to direct or influence the behaviour of others or the course of events

A person or thing used as a standard of comparison for checking the results of a survey or experiment

Physical strength and force exerted by something or someone

A member of an intelligence organization who personally directs the activities of a spy

Energy that is produced by mechanical, electrical, or other means and used to operate a device

A high card that will prevent the opponents from establishing a particular suit

The rate of doing work, measured in watts or less frequently horse power.

Determine the behaviour or supervise the running of

The product obtained when a number is multiplied by itself a certain number of times

Take into account (an extraneous factor that might affect the results of an experiment)

A large number or amount of something

To exercise authoritative or dominating influence over; direct

Supply (a device) with mechanical or electrical energy

To adjust to a requirement; regulate

Move or travel with great speed or force

To hold in restraint; check

The ability or capacity to act or do something effectively

To reduce or prevent the spread of

Often powers A specific capacity, faculty, or aptitude

To verify or regulate (a scientific experiment) by conducting a parallel experiment or by comparing with another standard.

Physical strength or force exerted or capable of being exerted

To verify (a financial account, for example) by using a duplicate register for comparison.

Effectiveness at moving one's emotions or changing how one thinks

Authority or ability to manage or direct

The ability or official capacity to exercise control; authority

One that controls; a controlling agent, device, or organization.

The military strength or economic or political influence of a nation or other group

An instrument.

A country, nation, or other political unit having great influence or control over others

Controls A set of such instruments.

A supernatural being

A restraining device, measure, or limit; a curb

Powers(Christianity) The sixth of the nine orders of angels in medieval angelology.

A standard of comparison for checking or verifying the results of a scientific experiment.

The energy or motive force by which a physical system or machine is operated

An individual or group used as a standard of comparison in a scientific experiment, as a group of subjects given an inactive substance in an experiment testing a new drug administered to another group of subjects.

The capacity of a system or machine to operate

An intelligence agent who supervises or instructs another agent.

Electrical or mechanical energy, especially as used to assist or replace human energy.

A spirit presumed to speak or act through a medium.

Electricity supplied to a home, building, or community

(transitive) To exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of.

(Physics) The rate at which work is done, expressed as the amount of work per unit time and commonly measured in units such as the watt and horsepower.

(construed with for) To design (an experiment) so that the effects of one or more variables are reduced or eliminated.

The product of applied potential difference and current in a direct-current circuit.

To verify the accuracy of (something or someone, especially a financial account) by comparison with another account.

The product of the effective values of the voltage and current with the cosine of the phase angle between current and voltage in an alternating-current circuit.

To call to account, to take to task, to challenge.

See exponent.

(transitive) To hold in check, to curb, to restrain.

The number of elements in a finite set.

Influence or authority over something.

(Statistics) In a statistical test, the probability of correctly rejecting the null hypothesis when it is false.

The method and means of governing the performance of any apparatus, machine or system, such as a lever, handle or button.

A measure of the magnification of an optical instrument, such as a microscope or telescope.

Restraint or ability to contain one's movements or emotions, or self-control.

Chiefly Upper Southern US A large number or amount. See Note at powerful.

A security mechanism, policy, or procedure that can counter system attack, reduce risks, and resolve vulnerabilities; a safeguard or countermeasure.

(Archaic) An armed force.

(project management) A means of monitoring for, and triggering intervention in, activities that are not going according to plan.

Of or relating to political, social, or economic control

A control group or control experiment.

Operated with mechanical or electrical energy in place of bodily exertion

A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register.

Of or relating to the generation or transmission of electricity

(graphical user interface) An interface element that a computer user interacts with, such as a window or a text box Ctrl.

(Informal) Of or relating to influential business or professional practices

(climatology) Any of the physical factors determining the climate of a place, such as latitude, distribution of land and water, altitude, exposure, prevailing winds, permanent high- or low-barometric-pressure areas, ocean currents, mountain barriers, soil, and vegetation.

To supply with power, especially mechanical or electrical power.

(linguistics) A construction in which the understood subject of a given predicate is determined by an expression in context. See control.

The ability to do or undergo something.

A spirit that takes possession of a psychic or medium and allows other spirits to communicate with the living.

(social) The ability to coerce, influence, or control.

A checkpoint along an audax route.

(countable) The ability to affect or influence.

A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.

Control or coercion, particularly legal or political (jurisdiction).

That which serves to check, restrain, or hinder; restraint.

The people in charge of legal or political power, the government.

Power or authority to check or restrain; restraining or regulating influence; superintendence; government; as, children should be under parental control.

(metonymically) An influential nation, company, or other such body.

The complete apparatus used to control a mechanism or machine in operation, as a flying machine in flight;

An army, a military force.

Any of the physical factors determining the climate of any particular place, as latitude,distribution of land and water, altitude, exposure, prevailing winds, permanent high- or low-barometric-pressure areas, ocean currents, mountain barriers, soil, and vegetation.

Effectiveness.

In research, an object or subject used in an experimental procedure, which is treated identically to the primary subject of the experiment, except for the omission of the specific treatment or conditions whose effect is being investigated. If the control is a group of living organisms, as is common in medical research, it is called the control group.

Physical force or strength.

The part of an experimental procedure in which the controls{6} are subjected to the experimental conditions.

Electricity or a supply of electricity.

The group of technical specialists exercising control by remote communications over a distant operation, such as a space flight; as, the American Mission Control for manned flights is located in Houston.

A measure of the rate of doing work or transferring energy.

To check by a counter register or duplicate account; to prove by counter statements; to confute.

The strength by which a lens or mirror magnifies an optical image.

To exercise restraining or governing influence over; to check; to counteract; to restrain; to regulate; to govern; to overpower.

A large amount or number.

To assure the validity of an experimental procedure by using a control{7}.

Any of the elementary forms or parts of machines: three primary (the lever, inclined plane, and pulley) and three secondary (the wheel-and-axle, wedge, and screw).

Power to direct or determine;

A measure of the effectiveness that a force producing a physical effect has over time. If linear, the quotient of: (force multiplied by the displacement of or in an object) ÷ time. If rotational, the quotient of: (force multiplied by the angle of displacement) ÷ time.

A relation of constraint of one entity (thing or person or group) by another;

(mathematics)

(physiology) regulation or maintenance of a function or action or reflex etc;

A product of equal factors (and generalizations of this notion): $x^n$, read as "$x$ to the power of $n$" or the like, is called a power and denotes the product $x\; \backslash times\; x\; \backslash times\; \backslash cdots\; \backslash times\; x$, where $x$ appears $n$ times in the product; $x$ is called the base and $n$ the exponent.

A standard against which other conditions can be compared in a scientific experiment;

(set theory) Cardinality.

The activity of managing or exerting control over something;

(statistics) The probability that a statistical test will reject the null hypothesis when the alternative hypothesis is true.

The state that exists when one person or group has power over another;

In Christian angelology, an intermediate level of angels, ranked above archangels, but exact position varies by classification scheme.

Discipline in personal and social activities;

(transitive) To provide power for (a mechanical or electronic device).

Great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity;

(transitive) To hit or kick something forcefully.

The economic policy of controlling or limiting or curbing prices or wages etc.;

To enable or provide the impetus for.

A mechanism that controls the operation of a machine;

Impressive.

A spiritual agency that is assumed to assist the medium during a seance

Same as Poor, the fish.

Exercise authoritative control or power over;

Ability to act, regarded as latent or inherent; the faculty of doing or performing something; capacity for action or performance; capability of producing an effect, whether physical or moral: potency; might; as, a man of great power; the power of capillary attraction; money gives power.

Lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits;

Ability, regarded as put forth or exerted; strength, force, or energy in action; as, the power of steam in moving an engine; the power of truth, or of argument, in producing conviction; the power of enthusiasm.

Handle and cause to function;

Capacity of undergoing or suffering; fitness to be acted upon; susceptibility; - called also passive power; as, great power of endurance.

Control (others or oneself) or influence skillfully, usually to one's advantage;

The exercise of a faculty; the employment of strength; the exercise of any kind of control; influence; dominion; sway; command; government.

Verify or regulate by conducting a parallel experiment or comparing with another standard, of scientific experiments;

The agent exercising an ability to act; an individual invested with authority; an institution, or government, which exercises control; as, the great powers of Europe; hence, often, a superhuman agent; a spirit; a divinity.

Verify by using a duplicate register for comparison;

A military or naval force; an army or navy; a great host.

Be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something;

A large quantity; a great number; as, a power o good things.

Have a firm understanding or knowledge of; be on top of;

The rate at which mechanical energy is exerted or mechanical work performed, as by an engine or other machine, or an animal, working continuously; as, an engine of twenty horse power.

A mechanical agent; that from which useful mechanical energy is derived; as, water power; steam power; hand power, etc.

The product arising from the multiplication of a number into itself; as, a square is the second power, and a cube is third power, of a number.

A machine acted upon by an animal, and serving as a motor to drive other machinery; as, a dog power.

Mental or moral ability to act; one of the faculties which are possessed by the mind or soul; as, the power of thinking, reasoning, judging, willing, fearing, hoping, etc.

The degree to which a lens, mirror, or any optical instrument, magnifies; in the telescope, and usually in the microscope, the number of times it multiplies, or augments, the apparent diameter of an object; sometimes, in microscopes, the number of times it multiplies the apparent surface.

An authority enabling a person to dispose of an interest vested either in himself or in another person; ownership by appointment.

Hence, vested authority to act in a given case; as, the business was referred to a committee with power.

Possession of controlling influence;

(physics) the rate of doing work; measured in watts (= joules/second)

Possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done;

A state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world

(of a government or government official) holding an office means being in power;

One possessing or exercising power or influence or authority;

Physical strength

A mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself

A very wealthy or powerful businessman;

Supply the force or power for the functioning of;